Cool PBS show about life on board a Nimitz class air craft carrier. Good highlight would be landing on a pitching deck (one & two) where the pilots who are already on deck, sit around eating popcorn making bets on if their approaching buddies will safely land, die, or miss and need to fly back around.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Carrier (PBS Show)
Cool PBS show about life on board a Nimitz class air craft carrier. Good highlight would be landing on a pitching deck (one & two) where the pilots who are already on deck, sit around eating popcorn making bets on if their approaching buddies will safely land, die, or miss and need to fly back around.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Undersea Cable Map
As pointed out in TechCentral, Greg Mahlknecht created a free online ocean cable map showing who owns the cables, their stats, and what they link. akg-random also points out an old undersea cable map from 1901!Also note TeleGeography's Submarine Cable Map (more underwater net/network diagrams)
Akamai 2011 Q1 Report
Akamai's state of the internet is out, and it's an interesting read. Gizmag has a writeup of the details, including notes about increasing access speeds, more mobile users and attack stats.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone
cnet security has an article/interview with Kevin Mitnick about how easy it is to listen/hack into to others voicemails. (use asterisk, dial up your cell# and in caller id, say your coming from your cell#)
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